View image in fullscreen Winner of the Eurovision song contest JJ from Austria holds up the trophy onstage. Share8m ago 00.01 BST AUSTRIA WINS THE EUROVISION CONTEST!!!! 🇦🇹🇦🇹🇦🇹🇦🇹🎉🎉🎉🎉 Austria has won the Eurovision song contest after JJ triumphed in Basel with their song Wasted Love, an operatic ballad with soaring vocals that mutates into a club anthem for the finale. Switzerland, which hosted the first ever Eurovision song contest in 1956, was the venue this year after Nemo won in Malmö last year with their song The Code. Share16m ago 23.53 BST Finland’s Ich Komme is not coming on top either etc etc Share16m ago 23.52 BST SERVING DID NOT GET SERVED.